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No, I think they're being literal. There is value that they want in your privacy.

That you can have real change when your country doesn't have billions of dollars spent on oil propaganda.

But a professional photographer taking a staged picture should know how to frame the shot so that the shadows work in your favor.

There definitely is a critical mass needed for social media. Reddit hit critical mass around 2012 when digg imploded. When I joined reddit in like 2010, it felt very much like Lemmy currently does.

I think that's a major problem with Lemmy, because it's so disjointed it's hard to hit the critical mass needed to keep conversations interesting and fresh.

Averages are fine if you have a pretty clean dataset. But if you have significant outlier data, like most do, averages can be misleading.

Mode and median are generally better ways to get look at a "central tendency"

I'm curious what query you used.

This is why "average" is a shitty way to measure what values are likely.

If you have a thousand people who have a thousand dollars, and one person who has a billion dollars, the "average" person has a million dollars.

It's people having their battery die while they wait for an open charger.

"Toxic" is just a way to say you've taken things too far and it's now overly harmful to yourself or others.

Toxic positivity is only seeing the good things and overlooking clear and obvious negative things.

For example, there is nothing positive about a school shooting. There is no reason to say "at least only seven children were shot". If you're trying to find something positive about that kind of situation, you're engaged in toxic positivity. Trying to be positive would only serve to mitigate the situation and minimize the pain and suffering of those who were involved.

Enough calories to feed you for the rest of your life.

I work in an area where it's impossible to record their behavior, and since there were so many people doing it snitching wasn't an option. They were smart enough to only "joke" when management was within earshot and resume actual harassment when they left.

I still work with that same group, funny enough they went back to being buddy-buddy once I got vaccinated and was able to drop the mask.

I have forgiven them in the sense that I don't think about it when I interact with them, but now I know how selfish they are and how they'd happily push me into a wood chipper if it meant they could avoid having to wear a small piece of fabric on their face.

I'm more curious about how it affects the sale of other drinks and foods.

Do fast food sales drop because of the increased cost of their primary drink options? Do people turn to water as an alternative or do they fill the hole with another option like alcohol, tea, or coffee?